Today could not come soon enough! #5JoysFriday
1) Exhibit on Muslim art at local museum with my son #makingmemories
2) cinnamon milk
3) crème fraiche & scones
4)watching The Pit with my family
5) a staff member at works makes french press coffee after lunch daily for us. ☕️?
Exhausting but fulfilling day both at work & at home. Capping it off with cinnamon milk,half a palmier, & some poetry. Not pictured:Em-cat snuggled on my lap.
I love love how much I am learning because of this book! #Yggdrasil #norsemythology #trees #atreeaday
https://norse-mythology.org/cosmology/yggdrasil-and-the-well-of-urd/
@AllDebooks Like minds. I like to think we were contemplating this at similar times this morning. 🌳💚
This mornings fare:
Blueberry scone & crème fraiche, coffee & a book. Started this at 2:00 a.m. when I woke & initially could not sleep. #Serieslove2025
So so generous of you to run this celebration giveaway!
What I love about litsy:
Community
Constant exposure to new books #blameitonlitsy
Buddy reads
Challenges
Seasonal card/ book swaps
CampLitsy
Friendships
Safe space
HyggeHour
Reading!!!!
Global feel
#50KGiveaway
March stats. Total:27 books
Row 1: Buddy reads & Kindle #sundaybuddyread #foodandlit #Ireland #bookedintime #Irishfamine #CrosswickJournals #MadeleineLEngle #studentbuddyread #readyourkindle
R2: #memoir #poetry #MatthewShardlake #DIBanks #IcelandicMystery
R3:#CommissarioBrunetti #RoyalSpynessMystery #Bookinabook #MartiniClub #GideonOliverMysteries
R4: #LaneWinslow
R5: #Spyness #PatrikHedstromMysteries #audiobooks #serieslove2025 #Storygraph
From the fabulous Louise Penny‘s April Newsletter: Today I signed up for the B& N virtual discussion of The Black Wolf (includes the book). Her last book tour(11/1,2) venue is at the Haskell Free Library & Opera House,straddling CA & US, at Rock Island, QC/Derby Line, VT. There will be tickets for 200 Canadians & 200 US citizens. Virtual tickets will be available 4/15. I am beyond excited!
Hectic crazy morning, meetings, teaching, & as is often the case, the totally unexpected pops up. Finally, a lunch time breather with coffee and a book. 🍕☕️ 📖
What a game tonight! On to the Final Four in Tampa! 🏀💪🏻🎉💙
Two of my favorite Indie bookstores that I love are RiverBend Bookshop-2 locations, but I visit the West Hartford store as it is closer, & RJ Julia, also 2 locations but I visit the Madison store every summer & enjoy a lobster roll at a nearby fish restaurant. 📚🦞
My #hyggehourreadathon plans tonight.
Drink soothing cinnamon milk, peruse the catalog Divine Geometry ( seeing exhibit today), catch up on Murder on the Links with my kitties. Sublime.
A darkish totally gray cloud morning. Perfect for hot blueberry scone , clotted cream & coffee. Off to the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford for a cafe lunch & to view Divine Geometry: Islamic Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum.
My #weekendreads
Engrossed in The Spy Coast today. #libraryfind
The Murder on the Links #ChristieCapers
The Vivaldi Cipher, #readyourkindle
Books I scored at the library this past Friday. Some old; some new. #libraryfinds
Just an FYI for my fellow spring card swappers. Mine just went out in the mail today. Apologies- My health held me back but my husband got me to the post office today. Yay! In early April my family visits Wicked Tulips- fields & fields of countless varieties of tulips for the picking. A wonderful way to celebrate & welcome in the spring season. I can‘t wait! #springcardswap
https://wickedtulips.com/pages/about-us
pickBrooks‘ response to her husband‘s unexpected, untimely death is poignant, raw, searing,lamentable,heartrending. #storygraph #nonfiction
Today‘s fun fact.
#5JoysFriday
1) town library- spent a satisfying afternoon there today
2) my work team- tough crazy week-thankful we have each other
3) coffee!!!!!!
4) Litsy 💖💖
5) my health- slowly healing. Yay!
Tonight‘s before bed reading. Another detective novel mentioned by Evelyne Redfern in A Traitor in Whitehall by Julia Kelly.
Concussed, dazed, confused,with memory loss, Albert Campion is blundering around trying to grasp just what his Majesty‘s governments‘ momentous & weighty task is required of him, involving the number 15. I am blundering & dazed along with him.
Breaking alive.
It is not an easy assignment, being alive. Coming awake from the stupor of near-living that lulls us through our days,awake to the knowledge that on the other side of the neighborhood ICE trucks are handcuffing people and on the other side of the planet children are dying in gunfire,while outside the first birds of spring are singing and everywhere people are falling in love and in some faraway mountain village a shepherd is ⬇️
The language of stories. I am reading Witness along side our class reading of Night.
#ninfiction #storygraph #TBR
It‘s Wednesday but…
1)
quiet silence in bed; rest
Sit on porch & listen to birds‘ song
Walk, in nature, in my community with other walkers
Face in sun
Garden
Family; sisters
Breezes
2) poetry, cozy mysteries, memoirs like Geraldine Brooks‘ Memorial Days
Tonight‘s before bed read. How reassuring & comforting to be in Poirot‘s ordered world. #ChristieCapers
The purpose of Brooks‘ immersion in the raw nature of Flinders Island is to finally,after 4 years, release her howling grief at the sudden death of her husband. These geese = Tony.
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/cape-barren-goose/
Tonight‘s hot cinnamon milk & a book.
pickLane & Darling, are on their honeymoon in Arizona at a luxury Inn.But their idyllic days are lambasted when Lane witnesses a poolside murder.Despite their best intentions,they are drawn in to a web of police corruption,mob presence,& violence.Meanwhile back in Nelson Sgt.Ames is in charge.With the assistance of a new recruit,PC Terrell, the first black on the force, he is investigating a murder.Is his romantic interest Tina involved somehow?
Found this in the library when looking for the author‘s Shardlake mysteries. Starting today. Already intrigued. Madrid 1940s. Spies, espionage. A “bleak winter thriller.” (Back cover). Still feels more like winter than spring here.
Love this poem & her poetry. #InPerpetualSpring #poetry #spring
Despite the cold mornings, spring has sprung in my backyard!
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/amy-gerstler
Tonight‘s cinnamon milk -delicious!
Warm milk
Dash of nutmeg
1/2 t cinnamon
1t honey
#hyggehourreadathon
I may be addicted.
#hyggehourreadathon
Me, my kitties, hot cinnamon milk, & a book.
Today‘s piece from Year of Wonder was both mesmerizing & haunting.
https://youtu.be/KVZcW0Wt2wY
pickInfluenced by the BritBox show,I started reading inspector Allen Bank series.This # two in the series captivated me from the start.A former professor,a “dedicated man,” inherited money & moves to the Yorkshire Dales to pursue his archaeological work.Everyone seems to love him,& yet he‘s found bludgeoned to death.What secrets are people holding, past in present?I was mesmerized & carried along as Banks pursued one lot of inquiry after another.⬇️
Sun is just above the horizon. First cup of the day with a cinnamon raisin bagel & honey butter.☕️🥯📗
#weeklyforecast
Top row: daily, annual reads
Middle row: #sundaybuddyread #ChristieCapers #poetry
Last row: school class reads, #lanewinslowmystery #librarybook
Week 3/23-3/29
Watching UConn Women play Arkansas State & reading this Chief Inspector Banks #2 mystery. #serieslove2025
#NCAA #Division1
pickWhat a delightful,intriguing new series introduced to me in another book.Evelyne Redfern, from A Traitor in Whitehall, is addicted to English detectives so she mentions various authors‘ she is reading.One of these is these the delightful Gideon Oliver,an anthropology professor, attends a conference on Gibraltar celebrating the anniversary of the discovery of the Gibraltar woman & her part-Neanderthal boy.But the celebration turns into a setting⬇️
#bookreport
Top row: first 3 are year long daily reads- I am enjoying/learning so much! My son shares this daily morning session with me,which adds to the experience. Grand Design: #sundaybuddyread
2nd row: poetry( currently reading), 2 school class reads, library book, mystery
3rd row: finished books,library,owned book(Donna Leon),kindle. #storygraph #themedcozies2025 #craft
pick#serieslove2025
So many emotions ran through me while reading this book: deep sadness,anger,awe.It‘s the story of a mentally handicapped man,who works in a dry cleaning business that Brunetti‘s wife Paola frequents.She learns he has died & she asks Brunetti to look into his death.As a favor to her he does,but finds no trace of the man- it‘s as if he didn‘t exist.Is his “viper” of a mother or his Aristocratic father‘s family involved in his death?
Today‘s tree brought back memories of the mythical “green man” we heard/read about as kids. 💚
I had to go for fasting bloodwork this morning so I treated myself to a coffee & a breakfast sandwich - of course while reading. ☕️🥯📙
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